It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
A short absence is the safest.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.